{"id":3011,"date":"2022-03-30T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:10:15","slug":"large-assignment-3-connor-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2022\/03\/30\/large-assignment-3-connor-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Assignment 3 – Connor Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Processing and Tile Generation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

For my tiling, I primarily planned to use the Turtle library to create a tile. I was primarily interested in diamond shapes with an inset pattern and that is my main motivation. This gave me a lot more creativity to come up with a unique design in the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simple tile generation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I tried going about this tiling phase in a few different ways. I first tried using turtle to create a randomized tiling application but that didn’t seem to work out to well as the geometry and keeping track of all the angles was much more difficult than I imagined. I think that maybe forgoing the turtle implementation may have saved me some time and allowed me to experiment with much more color within processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tiles in an ensemble!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mistakenly, at some point I managed to “combine” the lines of the tile onto other tiles which led to very interesting results. It was something that I looked into much further with the 3d printing phase!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Example of how a tile that is not perfectly aligned can still produce very intricate designs that are very interesting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

3D Tiling Across a Surface<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

There were quite a few modifications done to ensure that I was able to use the tile from the previous step which included raising the lines of the tile and creating a surface. I eventually had to treat the interior and exterior of the tile differently and then union the shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Single 3d tile <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lined up tiles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finished product of grasshopper code<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I created two simple planar tiles with height offsets according to different functions. My functions were the e(-5x^2<\/em>y^2) and cos(pi * x) + sin(pi * x) which helped produce two nice rendered models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I feel that I spent so much more time with the cylindrical 3d model and really committed myself to have a model that had a lot of holes but was still able to print without supports. I eventually ditched the interior of the tile as my design included lines that were both horizontal and vertical so no matter how I rotated \/ oriented the tile, it would become a very tricky to print. By keeping most of my angles > 50 degrees, I was able to get something that worked out pretty well. My domain that I wrapped around was just a simple cylinder with an expanding radius as z grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final 3D Printed form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most of my challenges were with the cylindrical model creation and brute force testing that a model would print well without supports. I also had some problems with the belt of my machine becoming very loose and some minor problems arose due to that. Here are some additional models that I looked at and played around with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renders that were pretty cool but were not included<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Code<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Link to Code: https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ConnorFrostLA3.zip <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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